Adobe Photoshop Introduction and Intermediate Training Course

THE PHOTOSHOP ENVIRONMENT

• What does Photoshop do?
• Introducing pixels and selections
• The navigator window: getting around in an image, zoom shortcuts
• Using the history palette
• Multiple undo and snapshots

IMAGE BASICS

• Resolution and file size
• Different image formats and their uses
• Colour types

SELECTION BASICS

• The different selection tools
• The magic wand and tolerance settings
• Inverting selections
• Feathering selections
• Anti-aliasing
• Expanding and contracting selections
• Transforming selections
• Adding to and subtracting from selections

ADJUSTING IMAGES

• Working with Levels and Curves
• Hue and saturation

The info palette

LAYERS

• Creating new layers and duplicate layers
• Importing layers from other images
• Giving layers transparency
• Linking and merging layers

CHANNELS

• Adjusting individual channels
• Saving and loading selections

SAVING FILES

• Adjusting image size
• Changing colour type
• Flattening layers
• Cropping images

THE PAINTING TOOLS

• Brush selection and adjustment
• Colour selection
• Creating new brushes
• Using patterns
• The other painting tools
• The healing and clone stamp tools

MASKS

• Quick masks
• Layer masks
• The graduated fill tool
• Editing gradient properties

THE PEN TOOL

• Creating and editing paths
• Generating clipping paths

MORE ABOUT LAYERS

• Adding layer effects
• Creating and using layer sets
• Clipping groups and their uses
• Changing the hierarchy of layers

WORKING WITH TYPE

• Editing type
• Colouring type
• Distorting type Rasterizing type layers

There is no formal assessment for this course. For accredited Adobe courses please contact us. 

This course includes:

• Training from a certified Adobe trainer
• Computer / Laptop to use for the duration of the course (classroom & onsite courses only)
• Detailed course notes and sample exercises
• Full colour course manual
• Refreshments (classroom courses only)
• A recording of the training course (virtual courses only)